A community input meeting was held at the Tempe History Museum Wednesday, where the community got to hear new name recommendations for names of several parks and streets in the City of Tempe.
Tempe Elementary School District has picked new names for three schools whose current namesakes were found to have ties to a local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan.Last year, the city’s historical society discovered that three prominent community figures in the 1920s were tied to the KKK. These figures are the namesakes for not only schools, but street names and parks.The issue was
The Tempe Elementary School District has picked the new names for schools that had long held the names of men who had belonged to a chapter of the Ku Klux Klan.